The Jewish exception to Jordanian and Palestinian nationality

Jordan's nationality law, today, includes this phrase added in 1954:

A Jordanian national is considered to be:....

2. Anyone who held Palestinian nationality, other than a Jew, before May 15, 1948, and who usually resided in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan during the period from December 20, 1949, to February 16, 1954.

The definition of a Palestinian came from the British Palestinian Citizenship Order of 1925. Jordan used that definition as a basis for its law - and then specifically excluded Jews.

Even stranger is that by starting its residence requirements from December 1949, the law would have excluded Jews anyway since by that time Jordan had ethically cleansed every Jew from the areas under the Kingdom's control, including Jerusalem. There was no practical reason to include a clause excluding Jews. The exclusion of Jews served no purpose except institutionalize bigotry into law.

This is a case of state-sponsored, official antisemitism that is curiously under-discussed. 

This antisemitism got extended into the Palestinian Authority's own drafted Nationality Law from 1995. While the text is not easily available online, and the law was not ratified, it also has a Jewish exclusion that was copied directly from the Jordanian citizenship law, apparently in response to Jordan's rescinding its claim to the West Bank and therefore taking away citizenship of all West Bank Palestinians:

The Palestinian National Authority drafted a Nationality Law in 1995, but it was not ratified. Article 7 of this law defines a Palestinian as "anyone who held Palestinian nationality, other than a Jew, prior to May 15, 1948."

Many Arab and Muslim nations have de facto exclusions that makes it nearly impossible for non-Muslims or non-Arabs to become citizens.  Saudi Arabia, for example, requires naturalization applicants to be Muslim, effectively barring non-Muslims. Algeria’s 1963 Nationality Code explicitly limited citizenship to those with Muslim personal status. The Maldives goes further, explicitly requiring non-Muslims to convert to Islam under its 2008 Constitution.

But they don't frame it in terms as exclusionary as the 1954 Jordanian law or the 1995 draft Palestinian law. 

The claim that Arabs are merely anti-Zionist and not antisemitic gets more ludicrous every day. 

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